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The Civil Engineering Society (CES) of University of Moratuwa initiated "Skill up with CES" webinar series with the aim of providing opportunities for the students to meet the expert and renowned professionals from all around the world. The third webinar of the series was conducted on 7th November 2021 by Mr. Asitha Rathnayake (BSc.Eng Hons.(Moratuwa), AMIE (SL), CIMA Dip MA). Mr Asitha is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge,

A team led by Dr. Chandana Siriwardana, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, has won in an international competition organized by Asian Preparedness Partnership (APP) funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The team was among the six equal winners out of 51 candidates representing six countries competed for the "Social Innovation Grand Challenge" organized by APP

Civil Engineering Society of University of Moratuwa initiated the “SKILL-UP WITH CES-Webinar Series” for the undergraduates to get expert advice from renowned professionals from around the world. As the 2nd webinar under this series, Prof. Sunanda Dissanayake (Ph.D., P.E., F. ASCE – Chair and Professor of Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Kennesaw State University, USA) conducted an insightful online session on “Higher educational paths for Civil Engineering undergraduates” on 24th of October, 2021 from 6.00 p.m. onwards.

A felicitation ceremony of Senior Professor Priyan Dias was held on 30th September 2021, the day of his retirement as a hybrid event launched from the boardroom of Faculty of Graduate Studies at University of Moratuwa. The event was organized by the Department of Civil Engineering to celebrate his 40+ years of long and distinguished service rendered to the department and the university. The highlight of the event was the farewell lecture by Senior Professor Dias aptly titled “On Connectivity” where he traced the linkages of the many aspects of his research. These included truss and road connectivity; system dynamics for concrete durability; neural networks for pattern recognition; structuring and interactions among various types of connected entities (e.g. in vulnerability, sustainability and degradation); socio-technical linkages (e.g. in resilience); and analogical transposition.

With the CES Official Website launch on 22nd of November, 2021, a golden memory was written down on the diaries of the Civil Engineering Students at the Department. On this remarkable day, Civil Engineering Society of University of Moratuwa proudly initiated an official website to showcase talents of the students embracing the tides of new technology. All the staff members, graduates and undergraduates of Civil engineering Department witnessed that blazing moment through a session conducted via Zoom.

Civil Engineering Research Symposium 2021 was successfully held at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa on the 17th November 2021 with the participation of eminent academics, students and the industry from Sri Lanka and around the world. This is an annual symposium organised by the Department of Civil Engineering to showcase the latest research activities undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Department.

Civil Engineering Research Symposium is an annual symposium organised by the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa to showcase the latest research activities undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Department. A 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Challenge was featured for the first time in history of the Civil Engineering Research Symposium to demonstrate the latest research achievements of the postgraduate students in a creative manner.

Civil Engineering Research Symposium 2021 showcases the latest research activities undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa. The book of abstracts published with the symposium comprises the findings of the latest Civil Engineering undergraduate research projects, conducted under broad themes of Structural, Geotechnical, Hydraulic, Construction, Environmental and Transportation Engineering. A selected set of abstracts will be presented during the morning session, held fully online.

“Mix Design and Pavement Analysis of Thin Surfaced Asphalt Pavements for Low-Volume Roads”, a final year individual research project of Jesudasan Arjoon Moses under the supervision of Prof. W. K. Mampearachchi won the “Engineer Chandrasena Award for Best Paper – 2021” at the IESL Young Members’ Technical Conference 2021, held virtually on the 9th of October 2021. It was an Island-wide call for research papers from the undergraduates and young engineers below the age of 35, in which 43 research papers were selected over 145 submissions.

Dr. H. R Pasidu, Senior Lecturer of Department of Civil Engineering at University of Moratuwa has been appointed as the Director of Engineering Research Unit (ERU) of Faculty of Engineering. ERU was set up in the late 80s with a view to disseminate the knowledge gained through research carried out at the Faculty of Engineering to the Scientific Community at large, and to promote research among Faculty members and Graduate Students. ERU organises the flagship International Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Conference, MERCon, which has been held over seven times with the presence of eminent academics from all over the world.